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give me your best "it will be alright" quote or saying

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LadyCybilCrawley · 16/05/2014 02:03

got news today that I cant share with anyone - not my husband, not my children, not my staff, not my team mates, not my parents, not my best friends - it will have significant impact stuff - I cant talk about it and its made me fairly miserable - awfully miserable - I am red eyed and in a bad mood

so .... give it to me ... you best Annie impression of the Sun Coming Out Tomorrow, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, or some quote about there being a silver lining in every cloud

Go on, hit me with it, do you best, because today cant get much worse ... I think

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SarahMumsnet · 19/05/2014 17:53

this is so lovely (and particularly pertinent to me as I languish on the sofa, laid up with a bad back). COuldn't leave without posting my favourite - it's actually from Uncle Tom's Cabin, but i came across it in Little Women. Here's the quote, after a sermon from sermonising old Marmee:

"We needed that lesson, and we won't forget it. If we do so, you just say to us, as old Chloe did in Uncle Tom, 'Tink ob yer marcies, chillen!' 'Tink ob yer marcies!'" added Jo"

Whenever I'm feeling gloomy, I try to "think of my mercies". Invariably cheers me up

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KateSMumsnet · 21/05/2014 17:59

My DM is a huge sci-fi fan, and she told me when I'm having a wibble to think of the litany against fear from Dune.

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing....only I will remain"

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